In his writing Hochshild explains how travel writing should take the reader “from ignorance to knowledge.” I like this perspective of how to approach travel pieces. I’ve only written one and I’m afraid it was more of a tourist pamphlet than a piece of journalism. The nitty-gritty is what my paper lacked and that is what I now know I have to portray in order to give readers “knowledge” of a location. Next time I take a trip anywhere I plan to take a notebook and record the stuff that I left out last time.
Feature Writing 